While red pandas are not naturally aggressive animals, the zoo asks anyone who comes across Sunny not to attempt to capture the animal themselves.

Sunny is the third panda to escape from an American zoo in the past five years. Rusty sneaked out of the National Zoo in 2013, and spent one day roaming Washington, D.C., before he was safely returned. There was also Masala, who slipped out of her exhibit at the Sequoia Park Zoo in 2015 and was only on the lam for a few hours.

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